[Help] Skyrim Performance Monitor and ENBoost Question

[ShadowOfNV]

I was wonder, I ran Skyrim Performance Monitor today and noticed I am very very close to hitting my vram limit (like 20mbs away from hitting it) I use a NIVIDIA GTX 780 3GB. Now iv never noticed anything odd, sometimes I CTD after waiting, I may freeze for a second while a new grid loads in the wild, I get big FPS drops in certain parts of cities, looking at a city will drop me a good 10-20 frames in the wild, but that's about it. I read that using ENBoost helps with vram and that Skyrim Performance Monitor doesn't work with ENBoosts detecting vram. The thing is, my ENB is RealLike ENB Quality version, and it comes with ENBoost but the version of ENB it uses is 0.198, does this matter? Does ENBoost still work with it? I mean when you download RealLike ENB Quality version it even comes with the ENBoost.ini. All my texture mods (over 100 if them) are usually 2K unless the only option is 4K or 1K. I'm a little worried, I even unistalled a few texture mods I really didn't need.

Here is the SPM results for help: http://i.imgur.com/eBtrTkl.png

And my mod list: http://modwat.ch/ShadowOfNV#/plugins

[saurusmaximus]

If you go into your enblocal file, you should see a line under the Global header that reads:

UsePatchSpeedhackWithoutGraphics=false

if you have that, you have enboost. I'm pretty sure the binaries you have do have it. If not, you could try using a newer set of binaries that does include it, your preset should still work ok.

There are some things you can tweak to (maybe) make enboost work better for you. Go to the STEP page and read up.

 

SPM works fine at monitoring vram with enboost, the only thing you lose is the SPM in-game overlay that gives you the real-time updates on what everything is doing.

 

As far as your system goes, your gpu is hitting 66C, which is hot, but not excessively so (IMO) so if you can handle the occasional stutter when you load a new cell, I wouldn't worry about it.

[ShadowOfNV]

Yeah, I got UsePatchSpeedhackWithoutGraphics=false

Im just worried cause im like 20mb away from hitting my vram cap, I though SPM didn't take into account the ram allocation that ENBoost does. So, im screwed if I add another mod to my game? I know about the heat issue, I currently bought a new CPU fan but yet to put it on. My friend told me this CPU fan will help cool down both my GPU and CPU greatly.

Edited June 13, 2015 by ShadowOfNV

[saurusmaximus]

I routinely slam into my VRAM cap (I have a lesser card than yours) and all I get for it is some stuttering. If you're truly worried about it, don't add any more visual mods, or downgrade some of the ones you have. But if you're happy with the way it looks, regardless of what the numbers say, don't sweat it.